Such was the case for the original Tron, and while computers have made rotoscoping significantly easier over the last several decades, Joseph Kosinski felt it was important that Tron: Legacy make use of the process too. In the old days of filmmaking, animators used glass panels for tracing, which as you can no doubt imagine was incredibly time-intensive. Those are really good memories of the whole process.'įor those who aren't familiar with the rotoscoping process, it is a technique that requires animators to trace over film footage frame by frame to produce realistic action. That was quite a leap of faith they took and it was great. I really got to do everything I wanted to do on that movie. 'Looking back, I just have good memories of the experience and the support of the studio was pretty astonishing for a first-timer. Even though the experience was really challenging and hard, and we shot the whole thing, I think, in like 65 days.' I feel very lucky for it to be my first film. I'm glad we did it and I was obviously very lucky to have it.

It's crazy, but it's what makes Tron look like Tron and all those choices on Legacy were what make Legacy look and feel like it does. 'What they did is insane on the first movie with the hand-traced rotoscoping of every frame. In anticipation of this, Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski has been discussing his long-awaited sequel, providing some interesting details regarding how the movie was brought to neon life. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tron: Legacy, which allowed audiences to once again experience the wonders of The Grid almost three decades since the original Tron lit up the big screen.

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